[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4031-4032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01328]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[CFDA Numbers: 93.592, 93.224]


Announcing the Award of a Single-Source Program Expansion 
Supplement Grant to Futures Without Violence in San Francisco, CA

AGENCY: Family and Youth Services Bureau, ACYF, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of the award of a single-source program expansion 
supplement grant under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act 
(FVPSA) Technical Assistance Project to Futures Without Violence to 
support training and technical assistance activities.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 
Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth 
Services Bureau (FYSB), Division of Family Violence Prevention and 
Services (DFVPS), announces the award of $370,000 as a single-source 
program expansion supplement to Futures Without Violence in San 
Francisco, CA. The award is a collaboration between ACF/ACYF/FYSB/
FVPSA, contributing $120,000, and HHS/Health Resource Services 
Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), 
contributing $250,000.

DATES: The period of support is September 29, 2015, through September 
30, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shawndell Dawson, Senior Program 
Specialist, Family Violence Prevention and Services Program, 1250 
Maryland Avenue SW., Suite 8215, Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: 202-
205-1476; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The grantee is funded under FYSB's FVPSA 
Program as a technical assistance provider serving as the FVPSA-funded 
National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
    In accordance with an intra-agency agreement, HRSA/BPHC will 
provide obligation authority for $250,000 to the ACF/ACYF/FYSB/DFVPS to 
provide national-level health care and domestic violence training and 
technical assistance. In accordance with this intra-agency agreement, 
ACF/ACYF/FYSB/DFVPS has supplemented an existing training and technical 
assistance cooperative agreement with Futures Without Violence through 
September 30, 2016. The HRSA/BPHC and ACF/ACYF/FYSB/DFVPS staffs will

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meet regularly and facilitate ongoing communication to coordinate the 
delivery of national training and technical assistance to primary 
health clinics.
    Supplemental award funds will support the grantee in providing 
training and technical assistance to domestic violence service and 
health care providers.
    This award will expand the scope of Futures Without Violence's 
technical assistance activities to include additional activities 
concerned with assessing and responding to domestic violence in health 
clinics and supporting children/youth and abused parents experiencing 
domestic violence. This additional technical assistance and training 
may involve such activities as: (1) Providing technical assistance for 
nine health centers to create health system changes that support 
providers and create sustainable responses to victims of intimate 
partner violence; (2) providing training on comprehensive, culturally 
competent responses to domestic violence within a Patient Centered 
Medical Home model; (3) creating new technical assistance resources 
that promote protective factors and resilience when working with 
children, youth, and teens impacted by domestic violence, which 
includes fostering stronger relationships with their non-abusive 
parents or caregivers; (4) providing training to domestic violence 
programs that improves consistent implementation of evidence-informed, 
trauma-informed, and culturally relevant programming for children, 
youth, and abused parents; (4) maintaining an online resource for 
domestic violence programs: www.PromisingFuturesWithoutViolence.org.
    The solicited application from Futures Without Violence underwent 
objective review by a federal panel using criteria that assessed the 
application's project approach, its organizational capacity, and 
budgeting of projected project costs.

    Statutory Authority: The statutory authority for this award is 
Section 310 of FVPSA, as amended by Section 201 of the CAPTA 
Reauthorization Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111-320. The HRSA authority for 
its funding is through Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 254b).

Christopher Beach,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Division of Grants Policy, Office of 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-01328 Filed 1-22-16; 8:45 am]
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